heatedly mentioned that to the management and even had an argument with them the moment when the ship is raised will indeed be important to answer a lot of those questions and to perhaps provide some kind of finality for the people who have so agonizingly watched this recovery effort but it will do little to take away from the horror of that moment on sunday when they lost so much in such a short space of time. this is the happy scene that should be this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria in this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. the air was crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seem to cast the longest shadow.

these schoolgirls had lost one of their classmates. to the most we studied together for a year never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom of one of the daria's upper decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. in that once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere again the scorer's and most of them were wearing the lifeless divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and do say she was pregnant and. was delivered her second baby in august. and yet only her husband

managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother and father we're all but will have to look after and she's only one and few years old but you know it's just buckle you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions going out criminal cases have been opened into why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person into why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed tom barton.

on archie dot com you can read the account of one man who alone save bill most eighty people from the area many have praised the captain of the only ship that stopped to help the stricken pleasure cruiser he modestly points to his crew and passengers as the real heroes saying that everyone was touched by what they saw in a rush to help without hesitation he described how they took their own clothes to give them to the wounded all this and more a click away at our t.v. dot com. turning to some of the hour's other top stories we're covering on r t washington says it will consider a proposal from moscow to reopen talks with iran over the country's nuclear program the ideas suggest making limited concessions to tehran if it goes along with the demands of the international community the statement comes after u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton held talks with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov in washington but also touched on the u.n. libya mandate with lavrov saying that russia has less misunderstanding on the issue

with the u.s. than with some of its european partners or he's got a cheeky on has the latest from washington. with regards to leave here both russia and the us have the view that colonel qaddafi must step down and that leaves should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on the if your world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya the actions of the allied force forces there as a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want for a minister was also asked about why russia is blocking a u. and they should have to condemn the syrian president assad he said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all side of moscow sees this as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition

prompting them to believe that if they were main insistent in the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition would resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and effectively turning them into targets for the police and security forces take a listen going to deploy. diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and make it condemnation without proposing any solution won't leaders to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place there is a good example of how we are all dealing with the situation in yemen no one's tripos into condemning anyone or adult the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signed everyone has to sign down and hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail well on bilateral issues there

have been some agreements and disagreements as usual but top diplomats bravely focused on agreements both pointed out the positive and constructive manner. which the cooperation between the two countries is going on many issues in the last few years russian the us of which the landmark deal on arms reduction the cooperation on of have gone forward in preparations for russia's accession into the world trade organization the obama administration is all for it and hillary clinton has once again stressed the american leadership support for russia joining the w t o also they have signed the long awaited agreement on adoption after scores of horrible incidents involving russian children mistreated by their adoptive parents in a number of cases murdered by them to stress the need for an agreement and a better oversight over how the adopted children are treated in their new families and the deal finally came through the points in vision there included a ban on independent adoption adoptions will only be conducted via licensed agencies also the agreement states that all foster children from our show will

retain their russian citizenship until they reach legal adulthood that is very important as the agreement states that applicable laws from both countries will be used to add adoption related trials up until recently the americans did not want to hear anything about taking russian laws into account now as for disagreements america's missile defense plans is one of the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries you could sense that both foreign minister lavrov and secretary of state clinton preferred not to go into details and talk much about disagreements but nevertheless we know that there has been discussions behind closed doors president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new plan for the larger offset russians need for legally binding guarantees that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words in

a legally binding document are better but again no specific comment on that yet. stay with us here on our t.v. still to come in the. we report on the deadly terror attack on mumbai which police suspect is the work of homegrown militants. but first rupert murdoch's media empire has announced it will withdraw its bid to buy out right control of the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster b. sky b. it's the latest twist in a phone hacking scandal that's engulfed the company as the spat goes a global across the atlantic it is claimed that journalists tried to bribe new york police officers for access to the voicemail of nine eleven victims u.s. senators are now calling for their own investigation into news corp british prime minister david cameron has also demanded a probe into the nine eleven claims paul lashmar an investigative journalist and head of journalism at grinnell university tells r t that the story's gone beyond the u.k. and well beyond just hacking into voice mail. the events that we've seen over the

last couple of weeks be extraordinary what was the u.k. story is now that can tell you should the spread through news international to you right now into united states and australia well it is quite a big threat to david cameron because it's the first time we've seen his judgment quite clearly through seriously into question the decision to use and to cool who'd been the editor of the news of the world when some of these events which you can place as his press advisor it was clearly a very very bad judgment and it's striking to him and he now is trying his best to make clear blue water between him and news international but we've got piers to be some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to you have to start to wonder what else is in and of course he's the head of the it's not just going back it's now the use of what we call blanket these are people played to tell you

information what should be private sources like medical records tax records so it's develop as we speak. three explosions have rocked the indian city of mumbai reports say at least twenty one people have been killed and more than one hundred injured our correspondent period has more three bomb explosions occurred within minutes of each other and this happened in very crowded neighborhoods one was the famous jewelry market and there was a bomb that was said to be found in a jewelry shop also near the offer a house in mumbai. in the western state of maharashtra obviously a very important city in india it's considered the financial capital here the ministry of home affairs has said that this is a terror attack the most recent terrorist attack. and eight it was the serious of shootings that happened in the taj hotel as it was that to have been terrorists

actually the pockets than the great service otherwise known as the i.s.i. were held responsible for those attacks back in two thousand and eight two years prior to that in two thousand and six another series of coordinated attacks that happened on seven different trains in india that with that two have been the students islamic movement of india is still trying to deal with those two recent attacks then now this is how people are just left wondering how this could have occurred so soon after those two thousand and eight attacks. police suspect and as long as a group called the indian mujahideen is behind the three explosions in mumbai this means they could have been organized from abroad according to ashish katon investigations editor with a to help a weekly in mumbai. but we knew. she had to we will go on tell more do a lot of good in good muslim you don't want the kind of this group i had on this group basically has not stipulated financial support of the cause of the border

pakistan's i.s.i. has been noted in this group i believe it describes. the logical support from less faith but that the nation which was behind you could be six eleven kind of attack less fit not has been no cheering this turn more giving him a giant meal the last seven eight years there have been providing logistical interventions uplift they have been taking it didn't he send you a secret did a high dose in pakistan and allowed them to come back into india and then did and then he gets all the decor the emails. the boxes back in pakistan and get even been killed by them and plan to get a strike eagle eyed a nation. in pakistan. the euro zone's building been dealt a fresh blow as ireland's debt is downgraded to junk status by credit rating agency muted moody's fueling concerns the country could need a second ballot out this week after portugal's rating was also reduced and post

speculation that italy also might soon need a helping hand. for northwest england tells our team the latest developments prove the single currency union is simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have economies in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to wait the only way to get on to this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national potencies to devalue to get growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they can't use their debt because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon even though we see the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people are out in the streets in rhone land in lisbon until this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the big issue now facing the older people union is this really really is the third largest economy in

the eurozone this place largest economy in the world i think your toes own can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies but if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes it's all these economies intertwined with spain's going to spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble the euro is inextricably to the whole project and it's linked to the european union if the eurozone goes quite frankly you can see this whole thing breaking go up but that is why they're so desperate to keep that's why this whole desperate to say that we in the u.k. a federal bailout the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the euro zone. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands are protesting in the egyptian capital cairo for the sixth day demanding the removal of the military council and threatening to expand their sit in to other cities demonstrators are also calling for ousted president hosni mubarak and his aides to face prosecution for the killing of

hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military's warned protesters against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the rally. and the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been laid to rest in kandahar cause i was murdered in his home there on tuesday the taliban has described the assassination as their biggest achievement in ten years shortly after the ceremony two explosions were reported in kandahar and a regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to the funeral. remember there are plenty of other stories available a click away at r.t. dot com here's what's online right now. following the world's most famous and notorious whistleblower after a high court in london defers his extradition to sweden. and the u.s. army under attack as hackers released the e-mail addresses and passwords of almost one hundred thousand soldiers this and much more click away. and finally in this

news block we asked the man in charge of the entitled drug efforts in russia how the country is tackling the flow of illegal substances from europe and central asia interviews coming up. the problem of drugs. anywhere no matter how much we fight it.

to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs. thank you very much for joining us today according to a. thousand people have died in russia. at the same time there are other. than one hundred thousand and that is actually. in the numbers. the figure of seven thousand. number of people who actually died from that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed drug users however. they knew how to measure. the reason for most drug related deaths is. a regular consumption according to.

what is the. these figures are in fact common for the whole world i mean police all over the world europe or america only managed to confiscate around ten percent of illegally traded drugs within their countries another thing is the extremely low efficiency of our borders and their administrative and legal methods lead to the only nor point two percent of all drugs are intercepted. drugs that get into russia first have to go through the states of central asia where they're not intercepted those states themselves above all are victims of afghanistan's enormous drug production. as a matter of fact afghanistan itself is the victim of global drug mafia work which creates

the demand and the political will to continue production in the country. this is why countries next have the greatest density of drugs. simply because they are closer to the epicenter further away the drug since a lot of different channels and then drugs get to russia for example through the seven thousand kilometer border with. their parents as well. testing people on mass would be far too radical no of course not we're talking about establishing an early warning system to detect drug addicts and abusers after all people are not born addicted to drugs it all starts with experimenting mostly and. when kids start spending more time on the streets away from their parents that's when they get to know drugs this needs to be detected at an early stage and if parents are warned in advance sometimes it just takes parental action and advice to put an end to these dangerous practices if not

stopped in time these experiments later lead to regular consumption which in turn requires longer and more costly treatment. according to. what you. i have to say that we rejected this kind of conclusion so did my colleagues in the u.s. russia presidential commission mr gil kerlikowske harsh statement we discussed it immediately with washington over the hotline and criticized the global commission legalizing drugs is a road to nowhere more than that it will result in the growth of drug. let me remind you of a referendum on legalizing marijuana in california in september last year i was there when it was held where we decided with mr gil kerlikowske at a number of meetings with officials including the mayor the sheriff the chief of police the prosecutor respectable professions have a clear position against

a legalizing marijuana and the referendum confirms that it should not be legalized . as far as the withdrawal from afghanistan is concerned the picture is unclear so far it was said that the withdrawal would start and certain parameters for it had been set mentioned thirty thousand troops by the end of the year but when i was in washington last september they were talking about the need to increase the military contingent in afghanistan exactly by thirty thousand now they're planning to return these thirty cells and so in fact nothing has changed i think the world community and you can disagree is beginning to consider the situation in afghanistan because there were several reasons behind the decision to launch a military operation the decision of the world community to interfere in the fair's of this for the country. to put an end to the taliban rule to set up an interim administration and hold free elections. these tasks were supposed to be in six or

twelve months but this september we'll see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two but the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved. it's become even worse and. like general petraeus for example who's commanding the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of armed clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times have the assigned tasks been achieved. security in afghanistan has only gone. because it said that drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation in the country so it's a kind of closed circle in this respect to the be worth a nato operation in helmand province which produces the most opium poppies the operation was called. which translated from persian means together. the operation was presented as

a brilliant military success considerable kilometers of the province were reportedly cleared of insurgents but the production of opium has never stopped that's why peaceful settlement is necessary but we've started talking about this at long last it was highlighted at the london conference on afghanistan in two thousand and ten the autumn conference in kabul also stressed the need to find a peaceful settlement but the latest initiative was voiced by the us president barack obama on negotiations with the taliban and the latest resolutions of the united nations security council which divided responsibility between the taliban and al qaeda are offering a unique opportunity in my view to drop a program of eliminating drug production i've just come from meeting of the parliamentary faction of the progressive alliance of socialists and democrats the second largest faction in the european union here outside the european parliament building we discussed the e.u. strategy towards afghanistan large sections of that strategy are devoted to liquidation of drugs production strategy matches very well with the russians. to

liquidate the production of drugs in afghanistan in fact the direction that russia and the european union are taking together very well so today we have a unique. opportunity for resolution and decisive action when you're doing your part you could use. the head of russia's federal drug control service thank you very much for speaking with us today by civil thank you very much. you. download the official. touch from the top story.

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retreat. six thirty am in moscow here are the headlines. once inside the buddh the bodies were everywhere in the corridors. where the lifeless divers continue the whoring task of bringing the bodies of victims to the surface after sunday's sinking of the volga river cruise ship this is a former captain claims he raised the alarm years ago about the ship's condition he says the vessel was run on a shoestring budget and needed constant maintenance throughout i mean boy. rupert murdoch's bid for the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster probables under political pressure as the hacking scandal spreads beyond britain u.s. senators now call for an inquiry following reports that journalists from murdoch

papers tried to bribe police for information after nine eleven. more trouble for the eurozone is the irish economy still falters further the e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain are heading for their own financial abyss brussels fears that it won't have enough cash in its trillion and a half euro fund to bail out the fourth largest economy. not only western europe facing financial troubles up next speaks with the prime minister of belarus about the severe economic crisis that has hit the republic recently spotlight coming up. yeah. i mean. the program is.

since spring is in the grip of a severe financial crisis is the government to do the. rescue by securing a loan from the. need to stabilize. this. is. to save its ailing economy today. is here to this question he is the prime minister. cling to official reports inflation. forty percent by the end of the year trying to get rid of national currency the russians are buying up importing dues exchange operations a temporary prohibited by the state the dramatic by the russian. undertaken two months ago hasn't stopped the process collation. helped secure a three billion dollar bailout loan from the russian led.